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GOODBYE, HOWARD DEAN

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It's over, Howard ~ I actually believed for a short time that you were right , THAT WE HAD THE POWER !

That together we could change this country, end this illegal war and return to our spiritual democratic roots.

I wore your badge, marched and walked the talk but the Democrats had already sold out to the Lieberman Bush lites and now your twisting in the wind ~ a mere shadow of your once proud and rightfully angry self ~ the Party Chairman for an opposition party that no longer exists.

It's time to say goodbye and J.L. Mann speaks for millions of progressives in his recent goodbye note to you.

Allen L Roland

DEAR HOWARD, I'M WRITING TO SAY GOODBYE

J. L. Mann
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12240.htm

03/07/06

Howard Dean Chairman Democratic National Committee

Dear Howard,

I'm writing to say goodbye. I'm off to join the Greens or Ralph Nader and the CUIP bunch, even the Libertarians-anybody who'll fight what's going on.

It hurts badly, but I just can't stay with you anymore.

I thought I owed you an explanation because of our courtship during the presidential campaign. During that time I detected in you a fair measure of a quality that's been sadly lacking in Democrats for much too long, that being a willingness to grapple with an opposition that's fostering the ascendance of fascism. And wonder of wonders, you seemed willing to combat their effort with as much vigor as Democrats usually approach infighting among themselves. I was elated again when you were made leader of the Party. My hopes were rekindled, even if ever so slightly.

But at a moment in history when the separation of powers and genuine allegiance to a living Constitution were literally on the line in the Alito Supreme Court nomination, Senate Democrats morphed into a collective Neville Chamberlain and chose appeasement at the cost of personal freedom and recognition of the Constitution as a lawful constraint on executive power.

The failure to stave off Alito's nomination will likely prove critical in its acquiescence of real power to the executive branch, a branch of government now dominated by elements willing to implement policies demonstrably akin to some of the worst employed by the enemy during WWII and the Cold War.

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